This had a lot of useful Geography in it: particularly the idea about the UK landscape and the threats that it faces.

Later in the week, there was an interesting letter from Peter Dunn published in the Guardian which gave an alternative view of CPRE's policies, referring to Prunella Scales, who starred in a series of Tesco ads, but was also a former president.A good section in the middle of the letter would make a great discussion starter:

"I've never met a farmer who doesn't loathe supermarkets for what they are doing to the farming community, yet the CPRE saw no conflict of interests in her appointment. Likewise it remains coy about the annexation of rural housing by wealthy townsfolk whose infrequent visits to their tax-break cottages have reduced hundreds of villages to ghost communities. Most of these visitors have CPRE stickers in their 4x4s. Bryson could have confronted such issues in his presidential address."

The idea of affordable housing was also mentioned this week, and the fact that most of the flats and houses locally are bought by buy-to-let speculators who can afford to act quickly and have the cash ready, rather than the local people for whom the houses are supposedly meant.

And finally on Wednesday there was a full page report on a group of organisations who have established a new campaign.PLANNING DISASTER